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Comments for "Origin Head: Steam Damages Brands With Deep Discounting"enRe: Origin Head: Steam Damages Brands With Deep Discountinghttp://www.gamepolitics.com/2012/06/06/origin-head-steam-damages-brands-deep-discounting#comment-280221
<p>Cry more EA, your tears taste like candy.</p>
Thu, 07 Jun 2012 16:28:43 +0000BlindMaphistocomment 280221 at http://www.gamepolitics.comRe: Origin Head: Steam Damages Brands With Deep Discountinghttp://www.gamepolitics.com/2012/06/06/origin-head-steam-damages-brands-deep-discounting#comment-280220
<p>Origin is just the start, it won&#39;t be that many years until all major publishers pull their games from Steam and set up their own DD services with this idiot&#39;s mentality.</p>
Thu, 07 Jun 2012 16:14:05 +0000PHOENIXZEROcomment 280220 at http://www.gamepolitics.comRe: Origin Head: Steam Damages Brands With Deep Discountinghttp://www.gamepolitics.com/2012/06/06/origin-head-steam-damages-brands-deep-discounting#comment-280215
<p>Funny, Indie developers who use steam as a platform tend to love the deep sales (which Valve asks permission to do from them first). Not only does it give them advertising power (the Forums tend to be filled with &quot;Is it worth it on sale?&quot; questions) they also make a fair amount due to a massive increase in volume.</p>
Thu, 07 Jun 2012 14:13:55 +0000lordlundarcomment 280215 at http://www.gamepolitics.comRe: Origin Head: Steam Damages Brands With Deep Discountinghttp://www.gamepolitics.com/2012/06/06/origin-head-steam-damages-brands-deep-discounting#comment-280214
<p>roflmao.. the only games i own that use origin (BF3 and ME3) i got on sale from other sites.</p>
<p>i also got TOR for 35 bux FROM ORIGIN not long after release...</p>
<p>i agree with others, pot calling the kettle black..</p>
<p>tbh i don&#39;t like origin because even if in offline mode, its online, and it gets nutty when my net drops and reconnects by trying to reconnect itself.. wth? its in OFFLINE mode! how did it even know my net dropped?! let alone why is it giving me a login error NOW?</p>
<p>oye... EA is digging themselves a nice hole aren&#39;t they? love it, can&#39;t say i&#39;ve seen valve sling nearly as much mud despite being outdone in some sales by other sites like greenmangaming (which often has a 20% or more discount on its pre-order titles, including for steam linked ones)</p>
<p>heck got FEAR 3 from gamefly for 5 bux while steams sale was only 10. damit valve, you need to start hounding your competition more so you can claim better pricing!</p>
Thu, 07 Jun 2012 14:12:35 +0000GrimCWcomment 280214 at http://www.gamepolitics.comRe: Origin Head: Steam Damages Brands With Deep Discountinghttp://www.gamepolitics.com/2012/06/06/origin-head-steam-damages-brands-deep-discounting#comment-280212
<p>Not only is it stupid to be bragging and promising that they will never have any real sales...<em> (Yet another customer here who is happy to be proven right that he will never have to touch Origin, btw)</em></p>
<p>I think that we can all agree that if sales did not increase both number of copies sold as well as over all profit... Steam would not have them. The fact is, by Steams own words, they not only increase profit in the short term, but customers continue to purchase the games at FULL prise for a time after the sale.</p>
<p>Furthermore, not only does the &quot;deep sales&quot; increase the number sold copies and amount of profit, it will also increase the possible fanbase. As for example with me purchasing &quot;Payday: The Heist&quot; on a sale that I did not even consider purchasing before. Not only did I turn out to LOVE the game, but I&#39;m still wallet-in-hand waiting for any DLC.</p>
<p>In Conclusiuon:<br />
David DeMartini is a moron who has no idea what he&#39;s talking about and I&#39;m happy not to be a customer of his store which bans people at random.</p>
Thu, 07 Jun 2012 12:46:56 +0000Yammocomment 280212 at http://www.gamepolitics.comRe: Origin Head: Steam Damages Brands With Deep Discountinghttp://www.gamepolitics.com/2012/06/06/origin-head-steam-damages-brands-deep-discounting#comment-280211
<p>lol at the pot-kettle :D</p>
Thu, 07 Jun 2012 12:28:37 +0000Yammocomment 280211 at http://www.gamepolitics.comRe: Origin Head: Steam Damages Brands With Deep Discountinghttp://www.gamepolitics.com/2012/06/06/origin-head-steam-damages-brands-deep-discounting#comment-280209
<p>Well, I was never going to use Origin anyways, but they keep giving me reasons to never want to use this service.</p>
<p>I&#39;m betting that these loons are the only ones who have a problem with Steam, as I&#39;m sure there&#39;s plenty of evidence to back up how great those sales are for, well, sales of games.</p>
Thu, 07 Jun 2012 02:06:36 +0000Craig R.comment 280209 at http://www.gamepolitics.comRe: Origin Head: Steam Damages Brands With Deep Discountinghttp://www.gamepolitics.com/2012/06/06/origin-head-steam-damages-brands-deep-discounting#comment-280208
<p>Wow every game I own on Origin (except for SWTOR) I bought at a deep discount.</p>
<p>Hey Pot</p>
<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Hey Kettle</p>
<p>You&#39;re black.</p>
Thu, 07 Jun 2012 01:51:47 +0000axiomaticcomment 280208 at http://www.gamepolitics.comRe: Origin Head: Steam Damages Brands With Deep Discountinghttp://www.gamepolitics.com/2012/06/06/origin-head-steam-damages-brands-deep-discounting#comment-280207
<p>Bleh. This is the same mentality when these people argue for heavy DRM&nbsp;on everything. I don&#39;t condone piracy but the same way that every pirated copy does NOT equal a lost sale, so too does a &quot;bought cheap&quot; copy not mean loss of sale. The people that are really excited for a game will buy it at full price when it first comes out and the rest would not have spend that much on it in the first place anyway.</p>
Thu, 07 Jun 2012 00:58:33 +0000Leahelmcomment 280207 at http://www.gamepolitics.comRe: Origin Head: Steam Damages Brands With Deep Discountinghttp://www.gamepolitics.com/2012/06/06/origin-head-steam-damages-brands-deep-discounting#comment-280206
<p>No, that&#39;s not what he said.</p>
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<p>Andrew Eisen</p>
Thu, 07 Jun 2012 00:10:09 +0000Andrew Eisencomment 280206 at http://www.gamepolitics.com